Saturday, August 15, 2015

A Peach of a Pair by Kim Boykin

"Palmetto Moon" inspired "The Huffington
Post" to rave, It is always nice to discover a new talented author and Kim
Boykin is quite a find. Now, she delivers a novel of a woman picking up the
pieces of her life with the help of two spirited, elderly sisters in South
Carolina.

April, 1953. Nettie Gilbert has cherished her time studying
to be a music teacher at Columbia College
in South Carolina, but as
graduation approaches, she can’t wait to return to her family and her childhood
sweetheart, Brooks, in Alabama.
But just days before her senior recital, she gets a letter from her mama
telling her that Brooks is getting married . . . to her own sister.

Devastated, Nettie drops out of school and takes a job as
live-in help for two old-maid sisters, Emily and Lurleen Eldridge. Emily is
fiercely protective of the ailing Lurleen, but their sisterhood has weathered
many storms. And as Nettie learns more about their lives on a trip to see a
faith healer halfway across the country, she’ll discover that love and
forgiveness will one day lead her home.

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It might
seem cruel to send this letter along with a proper invitation, but I couldn’t
bring myself to call you, and I wasn’t given much notice regarding this matter.
I also know you well enough to know you would have to see the invitation to
truly believe it. Although I do regret not having enough time to have them
engraved.

I’m sorry to
be the one to give you the news about Brooks and Sissy. I love you, Nettie, and
I love your sister. I’m not condoning her behavior or the fact that she is in
the family way, but you are blood. You are sisters. No man can break that bond,
not even Brooks.

There’s money
and a bus ticket paper-clipped to the invitation. I’ve checked the schedules.
You should be able to leave Columbia on Thursday the week of the wedding after your morning classes and
get back by Sunday night. I know how you hate to miss class, and if you are
also missing some wonderful end-of-the-year party, I’m sorry. So very sorry.

But the milk
has been spilled, Nettie. Come home and stand up with your sister. She needs
you. She’s a wreck, and it makes me worry about the baby.